Audio: Fugitive John McAfee on His Fifth Day in Hiding

As fugitive antivirus pioneer John McAfee finished his fifth day in hiding in Belize on Thursday, he responded to a statement from that county’s prime minister questioning his mental stability.

“I have no idea where it’s going, Josh,” McAfee, 67, said in one of series of telephone interviews with Wired on Thursday. “I do know that the prime minister and the prime minister’s statement yesterday could be equally reversed. You know, I think he himself is bonkers if he could throw away the constitution of the country and become dictator without the world catching on.”

Belize Prime Minister Dean Barrow had ridiculed McAfee’s statements to me that the police might kill or harm him if he were captured. “I don’t want to be unkind, but he seems to be extremely paranoid — I would go so far as to say bonkers,” Barrow said Wednesday, according to reports. “He ought to man up and respect our laws and go in and talk to the police.”

McAfee is wanted for questioning in connection with the murder of Gregory Faull, 52, an American expatriate and neighbor of McAfee’s. Faull was found dead, face up in a pool of blood, in his villa Sunday morning, shot once in the back of the head. Faull had complained about the barking of McAfee’s dogs — McAfee kept 11 at his beachside compound — and four of those dogs had been poisoned Friday night.

McAfee indicated Thursday that he does not plan to turn himself in.

Contributing editor Joshua Davis is the author of Wired’s new e-book John McAfee’s Last Stand, a chronicle of Davis’ six month investigation into McAfee’s life.

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